European Commission calls on Israel to lift restrictions on aid deliveries to Gaza

Published on 17/10/2025 - 16:44 GMT+2

The European Commission has called connected Israel to assistance restrictions connected nan transportation of assistance to Gaza, 1 week aft nan ceasefire betwixt Israel and Hamas came into force.

The agreement, brokered by US President Donald Trump, stipulates that Israel must assistance transition to 600 assistance trucks daily.

So far, Israel has constricted nan travel of assistance pinch authorities only allowing nan introduction of half nan agreed-upon magnitude daily.

Israel says that's successful consequence to Hamas allegedly breaching nan truce statement by returning nan bodies of deceased Israeli hostages excessively slowly.

For instance, 319 tonnes of shelter items sent done nan EU Humanitarian Air Bridge (HAB), including tents and wintertime kits, are still waiting to participate Gaza from warehouses successful Amman and Al-Arish, nan Commission told Euronews.

A spokesperson for nan Commission says location are galore bureaucratic obstacles hampering NGOs' expertise to administer aid, specified arsenic nan existent registration criteria imposed by Israel which tin lead to nan deregistration of immoderate organisations.

"We request to get much nutrient in," Eva Hrncirova, European Commission spokesperson told Euronews.

"We cooperate, for example, pinch World Food Programme, a UN partner. World Food Programme has astir 170,000 tonnes of nutrient fresh to beryllium delivered to Gaza and this would beryllium capable for 3 months for each nan organization of Gaza to person nutrition," she said.

NGOs and world organisations person begun expanding transportation efforts, nan Commission says. The UN has lifted nan unit ceiling successful Gaza to let agencies to deploy much unit and nan World Food Programme is maximising cargo inflow to Gaza to heighten nutrition programs and support bakeries, which tin now proviso 105,000 group pinch 2 kgs breadstuff bundles each day.

The EU has 3 humanitarian warehouses successful Gaza, nan Commission adds. The Daraj storage successful North Gaza was evacuated successful September 2025 and tin nary longer beryllium operated, while stocks person been transferred to nan operational Musadar and Zawayda warehouses.

"The needs successful Gaza are immense. We person famine which intends that fundamentally everything is needed now. Obviously privilege is food, nutrition, but besides hygiene, medical, evidently equipment, healthcare, water. We besides effort to get successful substance to beryllium capable to powerfulness nan services," Hrncirova said.

The European Commission besides demanded entree to Gaza for its unit and urged Israeli authorities to unfastened each crossing points into Gaza.

It noted that of nan 4 main ones, only 2 are presently open: Kerem Shalom and Kissufim, some located successful nan confederate portion of Gaza.